Re: [gentoo-user] Updateing linux-headers ...

[Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> On Saturday, June 11, 2016 03:54:32 PM Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>>>
>>> If what you're after is rebuilding all the packages that depend on
>>> linux-headers, a command line below might be one way of doing it:
>>>
>>> emerge -a `equery -q d '=sys-kernel/linux-headers-4.3' | sed
>>> 's/\-[0-9].*//'`           `
>>>
>>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>>
>>> Calculating dependencies  ..... done!
>>> [ebuild   R    ] virtual/os-headers-0
>>> [ebuild   R    ] sys-apps/busybox-1.24.2
>>> [ebuild   R    ] sys-libs/mtdev-1.1.5
>>> [ebuild   R    ] dev-util/strace-4.9
>>> [ebuild   R    ] sys-apps/hwinfo-21.4
>>> [ebuild   R    ] sys-libs/libcap-ng-0.7.7
>>> [ebuild   R    ] sys-libs/libseccomp-2.3.0
>>> [ebuild   R    ] sys-apps/iproute2-4.4.0
>>> [ebuild   R    ] sys-libs/libcap-2.24-r2
>>> [ebuild   R    ] media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.24-r6
>>> [ebuild   R    ] media-video/ffmpeg-2.8.6
>>> [ebuild   R    ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.9.2
>>> [ebuild   R    ] sys-fs/udev-225-r1
>>> [ebuild   R    ] sys-fs/udisks-2.1.4
>>>
>>> Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
>> Please ensure you pass " --oneshot " or " -1 " to emerge. Otherwise all these
>> will end up in your world-file causing interesting blockers later.
>>
>> --
>> Joost
>>
>>
>
>
> One other option, add it to emerge options in make.conf.  Then if you
> really want it in world, use --select or add it to the world file
> manually.  I added it to my make.conf file a long time ago.  It makes it
> much easier to keep a clean world file.  I would always forget to add
> that option.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

Understood. Thanks.